of the ship, they* would slide Into the lawrice corporal in the Royal Irish showed the Tonimies" the general run o? spades with whiff turbans" on somewhere Bines." other. Nothing could be done by as. of the game. Their antics were awful. their heads, were majestically striding1about. The Fusifier Giants It was madness to attempt anything. If we had used a regular basel),!-! I According to Stewart's look, that The three negroes were dead. don't think there would have been a France" Tommy should have Immediately After we warped Into the dock and dropped dead. That night and the following day Under Fire Tommy in the squad without a black Ti made fast, our work was over. We had Turning to the next, he said, "•Curly,* eye. Did you ever watch a girl trying was a perfect hell on the ship for men IVith Empey nothing to do with the unloading of to catch a ball? Well, the girl's team and horses. The ship rode through for the love o* Mike, who is he?'" the horses. The French cavalrymen alongside of some of these "Tommies the squall, and when it became calm Curly, with a knowing look, answered. came aboard with a bunch of cavalry would have looked like the -winner in we all got busy. Out of the 24 horses "'E runs the King's Arms halters hanging over their arms. It Sergeant Arthur Guy our world's series. It was hard work between decks we had to shoot 17 on public 'ouse, down Rye lane." was a marvel to see with what ease Empey keeping their interest up. account of Injuries. Besides the 17 cannot With a piteous look, Stewart and efficiency that ship was unloaded. 3 had died from broken necks. The glanced my way and I jerked my Two weeks later we went up into the afford to The condition of the horses was Author of "Over the Top," 4 remaining horses were still alive front line then came back again for thumb in Qie direction of the other miss on# or pitiful. They could hardly bend their First Call," Eta but, hardly had a square foot of hide another rest. The interest in baseball Tommy, who seemod to be bursting legs from stiffness.:. They would hobble the seriea of left. They -were a pitiful sight. was dying out and we were at our wits with suppressed^ eagerness. Stewart, down the gangplank and stand stories that is to O-O-O The next day the three- negroes looking at him, ejaculated, "Spit it end. Time passed, and we figured out trembling on the dock In about a appear soon in were burled at' sea without a word of out before you choke." that we ought to be hearing from our minute or so they would stretch their Mr. Empey's Experiences this paper. The This fellow, with a superior air, appeal, but nothing came. Then, ence prayer. necks way up into the air and seem During His Seventeen fact that they turned In the direction of the two dejected again we went into the front line For the next couple of days nothing to be taking long breaths of the pure are written by Months in theFirst trench. of Importance happened. air. Then they started to whinny. Tomm|es. and answered, "John Arthur MacGraw, why everybody knows 'im They were calling backward and forward Line Trenches of the The Tommies were very skeptical About four days out of Bordeaux to each other. Even though I 'e was the fellow in the London Scottish and every time baseball was mentioned one of the large steam pipes in the British Army in France famous as the did not understand horse language, I who clicked 'crucifixion' for they would gaze In onr direction lower hold burst. In this hold there knew exactly what they were saying. stealing the ram issue at 'Wipers'. 'E with a sneering look. This completely author of "Over were 04 horses. The engineer of was a lad, not 'arf he weren't" got our goats. They were thanking the good Lord the Top,M*nd the ship tried to repair the break, for .their deliverance from that hell A but it was almost worth a man's hissing noise Issued from Stewart's One evening we were sitting In a ttnttlwjrrMtltMl ship, and were looking forward to life to go down there In that hissing lips, and he seemed to collapse dugout of the support trench it was own •acptrltncM (Pe were sitting on a firestep in the and scalding steam. Che cries green pastures and a good roll In the like a punctured toy balloon. After raining like the mischief, and we were on th# Mttlt front, front line trench. It was bright and of the horses went straight to my dirt. Pretty soon you could see them to sufficient proof a few seconds he straightened up and cold and downhearted. Pretty soon sunny and we were bubbling over with bend their forelegs and He down on the rations came up. The ration party that th« •tortes wtll heart. All we could do was to turn a look of determination came into his good humor. There were two reasons b* of interest to the dock then try to roll over. It generally brings the rations, down into streams of cold salt vaster from three eyes. Addressing the Tommies, he for this: First—our battalion was to •very newspaper was pitiful some of them did not pairs of hose Into the hold, thus trying exploded: "Tou blokes are enough to the dugouts, but the two men carrying be relieved at nine that night and we reader. have the strength to turn over and to keep the heat down and save our "dixie" set it down in the mud of make Billy Sunday take to drink. Now, were going back for a two weeks' they feebly kicked. Pretty soon the as many horses as possible. the trench and almost "shot the listen here, and let it sink in deep. rest. Second-—it was spring. We could whole dock was a mass of rolling chutes" down the entrance to the dugout. Don't Miss the First Why the engineer did not shut off John McGraw Is the manager of the smell it In the air. Even the wind horses, the Frenchmen jumping They were breathless with excitement. the steam I don't know. I noted this New Tork Giants. He is a baseball blowing from the .German trenches in Installment around, gesticulating and jabbering. A One of them yelled out: fact in my report. After about four player get it? baseball player. A a our direction had sweet and After getting the horses up, they "Yank, there's a limber full of parcels hours the steam was shut off and the guy what manages a baseball team. "springy" smell. were divided into classes according to down~ln the reserve dugout. two foremen, Doc Casey and myself, And any fellows who can't make good About thirty yards down a communication their height and weight. Then each They're all addressed to you, h'Empey, followed by twelve other men, went on his team, or in the bush leagues, trench to the left was an orchard. saiillllllliiiiiliiiiiiliiiiiiiliiimiiiiiiiiiiii! horse was led into a ring chalked out and they're from America." Into t|)e hold. I will never forget the he sends ?em a cricket tat with their The trees were, scarred from on the dock and the army inspectors I sight as long as I live. Nearly every name Inscribed. on It and -pays their Stewart let out a shout and felt bullet?: *nd fragments of, shell but examined it. Very*few were, rejected^. one of the horses was dead, and those passage to England. Get me?" warm all over. How we lorded it even these battered trunks could not From. this' ring of chalk they which still remained alive had to. be over those poor Tommies. That night Several Tommies took exception to resist the feel of spring, because here were led Into a portable stall and shot. Some of them were,- practically we were to be relieved and go back tliis, aud oald that they had followed and there on the twigs and branches in France branded. Tou could hear the singsong boiled alive. The weather was hot, to rest billets. We could hardly wait cricket all their lives, but had never could be seen bursting buds. Flitting voice of the brander shouting out and it was not long before the rotting for the time. heard of any American cricketers being around were numerous birds, chirping, what sounded like "Battry Loo." As bodies of the horses made the stench The next morning was Sunday, and sent over by a Mr. McGraw. At and sometimes wrangling among themselves. he yelled this, a French private would on board unbearable. We had to get after church parade we made a mad this I exploded, and Stewart went up with come over, get. the horse which had rush to the orderly room to get bur these bodies out. Long tackles were in the air. Standing up and turning To me it seemed odd that birds could been branded, and lead It away. I rigged up, a chain around the neck of mail. to the bunch under the* trees, pointing accustom themselves to war. Occasionally got In conversation with an interpreter Arthur Guy Empey a dead horse, and I worked the'winch. The quartermaster sergeant was his finger in their direction, he a German shell, or perhaps and he informed me that the The bodies were snaked along the waiting for me, and behind him stood let out: one of ours, would go screaming over average life of these horses in the passageways in the hold and up to the every officer in the company, trying "Now listen, this is good. I'm going Aitiw «f "OYER THE TOP" the orchard. Tbe birds did not seem French army was three days, so these hatch. Some of the bodies would not to disguise the expectant look on their to send down to the ordnance to mind the noise—just carried on poor horses had only left that hell faces. Every eye was turned in the hold together, and It was a common corps and get a dozen gimlets and with their nest-building. ship to go into a worse hell of bursting Watch for this gripping series I sight to see a dead horse suspended direction of a heap of parcels. some funnels. With these gimlets I'm In our company was an American shells and cracking bullets. in the air by his hind leg drop suddenly thought the "quarter" never would going to bore holes in your 'nappers,' of stories in this Newspaper named Alexander Stewart. Naturally I, after passing a rigid examination into the hold below, leaving his start. Even the captain could not and using the funnel I'm going to pour he and I were very chummy. as to my nationality, and being issued leg hanging to the tackle. stand it, and giving way to his eagerness, aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimS into those garrets of yours a little Stewart and I were the chief a cattleman's passport, Inquired my said: "Sergeant, you had better TV ncu ui utnjr «vui& uiy uie, Every horse sent to France is brains. Then, after you've acquired "amusement promoters" in the company, IOIS IU way to the prefecture of police. I issue the mail." but that exhibition of yours on the branded witfi a different brand. They gray matter, I'm going to teach you the Tommies constantly looking deliverd to him a sealed envelope Stewart and I were all anxiety. have a system Of indexing them. As the great American game of baseball dock is about the filthiest I've seen in to us for some new diversion. which I had received in New York. Then, stooping down, the sergeant *a long time. Now, just take a tip each dead horse was snaked to the and then when through teaching you, In the English army a Tommy seems Upon opening it. he was very gracious took up a parcel and read off: "Empey, from me. That young fellow from now upper deck Doc had to stoop over I'm going to retire to the Old Soldiers' to have the idea that an American's to me and I went into a rear room, and make a note of the brand before home as physically and mentally unfit, No. 5203," and threw it over to on is working for me, and you lay your chief vocation in the United States is where the interpreter put me through me. I caught it on the fly. The sergeant hands* off of him. If I find you meddling the horse was thrown overboard. because I know the job will put to invent, and to keep on inventing. a grilling examination. From there me there." kept on reading out "Empey," with him, I'll push that silly grin As the dead horses were dropped Of course, Stewart and I did not in I was taken to a hotel, and the next and parcels came through the air like of yours down your throat until it over the side, a resounding splash The Tommies did not take exception any way^.try to dissipate this idea in morning in the company of a sergeant a bombardment. chokes you. Now, that's all I got to could be heatd and the water was^ to his pointed remarks about their fact, we ^ncoura.ged It, and took great and a private, get into a little matchbox The first parcel I picked up was say, lay off of him. Do you understand?" churned into a foamy white as the lack of brains. They overlooked this pride in^heing looked up to in this compartment on the funniest .looking stamped "Passed by Censor," and con- body momentarily sank from view. because they were very eager to learn Way but, believe ine, it kept us hustling train I ever saw. The track seemed Pinero started to mumble excuses, Then the bloated body of the horse how to play baseball. to keep the Tothmles amused. to be about three feet wide the bu* the doctor shut him up with, "I would reappear aild disappear in the 1 I(f|R'as-. getting too warm for soccer A chorus of, "Go to h'it, Yank, that's wheels of the cars looked like huge wake of the ship, the seagulls hovering don't want to hear any more. I'm off what we want something new out fpptball, ani we knew as soon as we cogwheels on an engine minus the v' you for life, but remember what I and screaming around It.. g^^tim*^r£gt~%iHets that the Issue 'ere in this bloody mess of mud and cogs.. After bumping, stopping, and %li you. Steer clear from the two o* 'cooties.'" The grub on that ship was awful, wtti|id b^f p^t right up to us: "How sometimes sliding backwards,4 in. 26 sabe?" and a day out of Bordeaux the gang ftre y6u going to amuse us while behind Stewart said that we would have to hours we reached a little town. Supplies !-I guess the second foreman "sabied" the lines?" talk the matter over, and beckoning of horsemen refused to work. The were piled up as high as houses. xtl right, because he vouchsafed no foreman mustered them on the main We were Americans, and red-blooded to me, went in the direction of the Officers and enlisted men were hurrying Answer. My heart warmed to "Doc" spring was in the air, and our billet. I followed. He then outlined deck and standing on the bridge let to and fro, and I could see long trains his scheme. tosey and I slipped away unobserved. out about twenty minutes of religion thoughts turned to what every American of supply wagons and artillery limbers and advice in their direction. The boy is thinking of upon the arrival We were to form two baseball The next morning the doctor fixed always moving in the same direction. of spring—baseball. classes, Stewart in charge of one, I me up with court plaster and I was whole gang Immediately got religious I was ushered into the presence of I turned my eyes to the muddy parados the other. On the plaster of the billet and returned to their duties. Installed as assistant veterinarian. at a French officer, who, I later found out, we carefully scratched out a baseball In (rear wall of the trench) and fixed 1 $30 for the trip. I was to sleep 1 was heartily sick and disgusted was a brigadier general of the quartermaster my gaze on a fragment of German liamqnd, and then called the Tommies "Doc" Casey's stateroom, where he with the rest of the trip, because the torps. I could hear a distant shell embedded in the mud. Eretty n. 'ihey sat around like little chilIren "had his medicine stock, but before entering stench was awful, there being about booming, and upon inquiring soon this fragment seemed to change in a school, eagerly intent. For the room "Doct told me, "Take twelve dead horses that we could not found out that it was the guns of into a baseball player, with mask, protector wo hours we explained the game to ./ this bucket of. water put a few drops get out France, striving to hold back the German hem. When we got through they a'" and catcher's mitt. He was \.of creosote in it, and go aft on the Just outside of the entrance of the invaders. I trembled all over crouching behind the home plate and cnew how to play baseball—on paper. good hatch and take a bath, and throw river leading to Bordeaux, a small, with excitement, and. a feeling that I signaling to the pitcher, gust then \Ve dismissed them, telling them an your underwear away." rakish boat, flying the trl-color of cannot describe rushfft over me. I was Stewart said: "Say, Emp, I wonder itlier class would be held the follow I asked him what for. answered: He France,, came alongside. We hove Jo listening to my first sound of the guns If we could teach the Tommies ,how to ng afternoon. That night, Stewar* "When you take your shirt off, take a uu the western front. and up the gangplank came three play baseball?" ind I, around the stump of a candle a good look at it and you'll why." see French officers. They were closeted I immediately turned in his direction. .rt-ent into details for organizing two Two days afterward I again reached I |egan to feel .Itchy all over but minutely with the captain of the ship and our He was also staring at that fragment teams. Everything appeared rosy, and Bordeaux, and shipped to New Tork followed his instructions. foreman, and after about twenty minutes, of shell. ve were highly jubilant. A Tommy on the French liner Rochambeaux. look Upon taking my shirt off, one left and we continued on our I answered "Did you ever try to •used over in our direction and inuo Upon arriving in New Tork I reported was was over enough. It alive, and .course. teach a Chinaman how to speak gently asked: the me a to the Frenchman who had sent me rail It went. Doc loaned Going up the river In some places '1 sye, Yank, isn't It necessary to French?" over. He was very courteous, and as white suit and took charge of my Contained Twelve Brand-New Baseballs. the banks were only about twenty He got it right away and a dejected 'ave byseballs and c'.ubs? We cawn't I reached out to shake hands with him, outer clothing. What he did with feet away. We Could see the French look spread over his countenance, and very well pl'y without 'em." he placed both hands on my shoulders them I don't know, but that afternoon women tilling their fields. As we tained twelve brand-new baseballs, or he let out a long-drawn sigh. and kissed me on the right and left This was a bombshell to us. In our he returned them to me. .. They were went by these workers stopped and A Tommy sitting on mv^ight butted at least, eleven, and the remains of eagerness and excitement we had quite cheek. I was dumfounded, blushed all shrunk a size smaller, but were clean. one. This twelfth ball was stamped, waved their hands in the air to us, and In with: "Did you sye bjteeball, Tank? over, and after receiving the pay that forgotten that bats, balls and gloves I was satisfied. So was Doc. we waved back. It was my first sight Why, I saw a gyme in London, and it "Opened by Censor," but search as I were necessary. I thought Stewari was due me, I left. Five days out we ran Into a squall of France, and I was not in any way could, I could find no stamp reading Is absurdly easy to plye, but I cawn't was going to burst. Letting out a "Well, I think I could have borne another and our work was cut out for us. We disappointed. It lived up to my expectations. "Sewed Up by Censor." We did the sye I fawncy h'lt." trip aeross with horses, but that being I'll be blowed!" which nearly blew the even had horses on the decks in sewing up, but that ball looked like a With a look of disgust Stewart candle out, he turned a silly look in wooden stalls. The ship was lurching kissed upon my return completely got duck's egg when we had finished. A little farther up the river we came turned to me and said: "I guess you're my direction, and I looked just us my goat. and pitching, and huge seas would Stewart and I roundly cussed the censor. to a large doclc where ships were loading right, Emp, it would be easier to teach •heap. I went back to the routine of my burst over the gunwales. Later, we both cussed the inventor and unloading cargoes, and a thrill office, but everything had lost color and the Chinaman French." At last the 'Tommies had stwnpH Several of the wooden stalls gave of baseball. There was a reason. passed through me as I saw my* first ~nd we could see our reputation appeared monotonous. I believe I had way and the horses were loose on the and That night we were relieved batch of German prisoners at wprk. left my heart in France, and I felt deck. With every lurch of the ship fading Into nothing. A dead silence These were immense fellows, nearly went behind the lines. mean and small, eating three square a couple of horses would fall, and, reigned for over five minutes. Then The readers of the newspaper appealed The next afternoon, after parade, every one being six feet or over. They meals a day and sleeping on a soft kicking and snorting, would slide down Stewart started madly to open his haversack. we were sitting in tin orchard drinking to had nobly responded to our were guarded by little French soldiers, bed, when the armies on the other side the inclined deck, hitting against I thought he had suddenly appeal. There were enough gloves tea. About a month before, Stewart averaging about five feet five inches, were making the world's history. ^winches and the hatchway, scraping gone crazy. I reached my hand in tli and I had taught the Tommies how to and balls for two teams, and even a with a long rifle, bayonet fixed. This Sometimes when sleeping I would their hides off. It was worth a man's direction of my bayonet, fearing tha' chest protector and mask. The mask pifoh horseshoes. There was great rifle, in Comparison with the Frenchman, have a horrible nightmare I could see .«• life to get into that mess. he was looking for a Mills' bomb was an article* of great curiosity to all. rivalry among the different squads, looked like a telegraph pole. The those horses being boiled alive in When he drew his hand out, hangin S Then I had more or less respect for Some of them' thought it was a bomb soldiers had on the old blue overcoat^ each sqiiad having a team., steam. to his fist was a writing pad. I let |,the foreman and second foreman. protector. Every one in turn tried it the Jails buttoned back, pattern of Just then Corporal Watklns came Several times later I passed that of my bayonet. Borrowing a peaci 4jlnto the midst of that struggling and on, and every one, upon learning that 1871. over to us and asked "Where are the sign on Greenwich street, "Horses for from me (Stewart was always borrow icking bunch of horses they went, as- the catcher was to wear the mask, As we passed the German prisoners 'orse shoes? I cawn't find'em." France, Men Wanted," and. the picture ing), he started writing. I thought per Ifeisted by Doc Casey. Four of the wanted immediately' to sign up for they scowled at us, and we, feeling Another Tommy answered: "Strafe of ^the second foreman dropping the haps he was going to commit suieid Worses received hroken legs, and Pinero, the position. Stewart and I could quite safe on the deck, yelled back insults pasty-faced doctor would loom before me pink£ where are your h'eyes? and was writing a farewell letter horn: instead of shooting them, cut have been elected to parliament right at them. One big Irishman my eyes. I do not know to this day Cawn't you bleomin' well see the h'offlcers and asked him what was up. II their throats with a sharp dagger he right near me, took great glee in jumping there, if these Tommies could have what became of, that nervy wrepk of usin' 'em be'ind that billet over whispered to me carried. had lheir way. up and down on the hatchway and: there? Blime me, they're, alw'ays humanity, who had the temerity to tell "Emp, we're two bloody fools not to One of the negroes from the lower The next afternoon the candidates, running his finger across his throat. a'gummin' the gyme." our foreman where he got off at. I have thought of this long ago. Al! hold staggered to the upper deck with forty in all, and the whole company, This seemed to'enrage the prisoners Sure enough, the officers were using know he did not make the passage we've got to do is to write home to on^ and they yelled something in German. turned out en masse on the baseball our horseshoes. pfij his face blanched almost white, and with us. of the New York papers, asking tht field, which we had laid out during The Irishman must have understood Stewart^ with a look of depression '*"i his eyes popping out of his head. Between readers to send out baseball stuff to it, because he let out a volley of curses our previous stay in rest billets. gasps he informed us that a on his face, turned to me and said: us, and it vrill only be a matter of in return. The French'sentries seemed From that day on, Stewart and I "Well, here goes, Emp. Steve Brodle "W whole section of stalls, 24 In all, had few weeks when we will have encugl AN AMERICAN HABIT to enjoy this barrage of insults and led a dog's life. Though on paper took a chance, so I might be able to ^been carried away between decks, and THAT WAS EXPANDED. to equip two teams." did not In any way attempt to curtail everything looked bright, and the candidates that the horses were loose. He said get away with this." I offered to-write the letter, aru the prisoners' remarks. This, at the were letter perfect in the three negroes in his gang were caught Then, turning to the Tommies he Coming to the relief of the distressed with Stewart bending over no, time, struck, me as depicting a remarkable game, or thought they were, on the In this stampede. said: "Did any of you blokes ever is not a new sensation to us. eagerly wrote an appeal to the reader, sense of fainmss, ajid later on, field they were dubs of the wor U: caliber—regular hear of John McGraw?" The foreman mustered most of the Having sent shiploads of food to the of a New York "newspaper, and turned during my service on the western boneheads. If McGraw Three of the Tommies answered, *k*men, and dividing them into three famine sufferers of India as offhandedly the letter over to in:* mail orderly. front, I found out that the Frenchman of the Giants had had that mob V'ls ujgroups, in charge of himself, the seczZT "Yes as the housewife hands out a Cut We then explains- to the Tomrniethat in all his dealings is fair and wished on him he would have chucked: Ag^sunny smile and a look of hope ond foreman and Doc Casey, they went of the loaf to the wayfarer, it seemed equipment was necessary and' tlu just. up his job and taken the stump for below. I followed. An awful sight met the most natural thing in the world to flitted across Stewart's face, and he we had written home, but while wait Pretty soon the prisoners faded out woman suffrage so you can appreciate breathlessly asked, "Who is he?" "J?he my eyes. succor Belgium, to take on the feeding ing for the baseball stuiv strive v. of sight and wo name alongside the our fix. of a nation quite informally. three started to answer at once, but '\pr, The ship^s lurching in a horrible would carry on, with our" ii.3tr.ucUc dock at Bordeaux, was all eagerness ." rStewart was a really good pitcher Stewart, majestically extending his |-^§t^manner. AllI could see was, one classes. and strained my eyos so as not to miss plenty of curved stuff, having played minute a pile of kicking horses, The test of peace is to summon fot hand, palm forward, said, "Get in The next day Stewart and I innlr- the least thing. The dock was full of eend-jgro ball in the United States. I€ line, one at a time. Now, Perkins, who smashed-up planks' and the three ne5groes the healing of nations devotion equa woolen baseball out cf an old pri^ French cavalrymen, hurrying to and is John McGraw?" piled up in one corner of the to that given the tasks of war. P—d rm -n ... •...»••• fro. Huge Turcost blackas.the ace compartment^.and then, with a lurch Perkins answered: ."Why» 'e'p a (To be continued next week) iU